Among disturbing news events over the past week which include a man grilling up his ex girlfriend and another man who ripped his wife’s eyes out after she refused sex, perhaps the most wholesomely troubling is a feature on “Purity Balls” published March 22 on Yahoo! News.
The story reports that during elaborate ceremonies around the nation, girls as young as nine are pledging to their fathers they will remain virgins until marriage.
The gala events are highlighted by the father and daughter exchanging vows, the father swearing to protect his daughter’s chastity by living an “unblemished life” while the daughter swears off sex until she weds.
The father goes so far as to give his daughter a “purity ring” or “Chastity bracelet” she
wears until the night she can entrust it to her husband.
According to Leslee Unruh, founder of Abstinence Clearinghouse, a major player in the “purity” movement, fathers pledge to their daughters they will not cheat on their mothers or use pornography.
I can’t speak for a nine year old girl, but the 29-year old man writing this post can tell you that if my father approached me tomorrow about pornography and his “use” of it, I’d instantly develop an emotional hole in my soul no amount of therapy could fill.
The article says 1,600 purity balls were held across the United States in 2006, a number that’s expected to double in 2007.
As if planned by God himself, coinciding with the rise in Christian purity balls, Sqlhelper.net reports that an anti-rape device that has been waiting for patent verification is about the hit the market.
The female condom-like device is lined with what look like sharp fish teeth which stab the intruding penis and must then be removed by a doctor.
In other words, a better deterrent to little Caleb than a bracelet.
In other news, computer nerds have finally come up with a better way to validate human users on registration forms. You know that squiggly mashup of numbers and letters some Web sites painstakingly make you decipher? Instead, Hot Captcha permits site visitors to choose the three hot people from a group of nine in order to be verified.
The great part is that it pulls down live pictures and rankings directly from HotorNot.com. Ouch. As if being told your ugly by the rest of the nation wasn’t bad enough.
And finally, if you’re a fan of Maxim Magazine’s “Found Porn” section, you’ll like this.
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